Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Irregulars Question: Book
> > Recommendations
> > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:24:21 -0500
> >
> >
> > > From: Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > >
> > > Hey, here's a follow-up: I have a vague
> > remembrance of hearing about a
> > book wherein galactic culture was based on a sort of
> > Communist type of
> > system, where each race is given a task suited to
> > its abilities. When
> > they discover Earth, they decide that humans are
> > best fit for combat, due
> > to endorphins, adrenaline, some redundant systems.
> > Does that sound
> > familiar to any of you?
> > >
> >
> > Kind of:
> >
> > Alan Dean Foster: A call to Arms, book one of the
> > damned.
> > The False Mirror, book two of the
> > damned.
> > The Spoils of War, book tre of the
> > damned.
> >
>
> I remember such a plot in a book by Andre Norton, but
> don't remember the title; the protagonist was named
> Kana Karr, I think - he was following in the mercenary
> footsteps of his family, but I recall that he was
> hoping to prove to the alien overlords that humans
> were _more_ than just swordsmen.
Hey, wait, was that _Star Guard_?
Julia
whose first introduction to Andre Norton was a copy of _Octagon Magic_
her father dug up for her one day
